Child Research Net (CRN) is a non-profit, Internet-based child research institute. We have designed CRN's English site to bring together people concerned about children and to offer a forum for innovative interdisciplinary discussion. Our vast network of professionals, researchers and educators around the world will bring you articles, reliable data and the latest research in English, mainly on Japanese children and youth that are not otherwise available.

Celebrating our 20th anniversary in 2016, CRN has launched the "Child Research Network Asia (CRNA)," covering a wider area throughout Asia in search for solutions to various issues involving children in Asia.
In this section, you will find the detailed reports of lectures at the International Conferences, as well as articles on the current situation and issues of targeted Asian countries.

Please click here to read more about the "Child Research Network Asia (CRNA)."

In this series, we examine the current landscape and issues of education in Japan based on results of surveys mainly targeting students, parents and teachers. Pursuing the growing emphasis on evidence-based educational practice and policy evaluation in Japan, we intend to introduce the accumulated data that depicts the current situation of education in Japan to overseas researchers and practitioners.

"ECEC around the World" covers a wide range of topics on early childhood education and care (ECEC) from the perspective of researchers around the world. Early childhood education and care vary according to the culture, language and characteristics of a particular country. These articles promote reexamination of early childhood education in one's own country while introducing developments elsewhere.

Japan has become an aging low birth-rate society, facing rapid demographic change. Since countermeasures for the declining birth rate are urgently required, we will look into the issues of marriage, pregnancy, childbirth and child-rearing in this section. We will also view the opinions of professionals and individuals supporting child-rearing, thinking of ways to create a society that can provide effective support for children and child-rearing families.

This section features articles and essays on child raising and education by researchers and professionals in various fields in Japan, China, and South Korea. What are the differences in child-raising customs, educational systems and the thinking that emerges from them? CRN’s international network communicates what is happening in East Asia today.

Specialists and researchers in education for students with developmental disorders or who are gifted explain these conditions and how to deal with them in detail. This section also introduces practices in Social Skills Training (SST) and relevant data.

Reviews of articles from Mind, Brain, and Education (MBE) introduce the integration of neuroscience and education. MBE is published by the International Mind, Brain and Education Society (IMBES) and Blackwell Publishing and edited by a board of internationally recognized scholars and practitioners in fields relevant to the mind, brain and education.

CRN created this special section on "Child Science and the Great East Japan Earthquake: Emotional Care for Children" to support the efforts of those assisting in the emotional care of children, Children are our future and our hope. We will be grateful if you find it helpful in some way.

Young Researchers' Papers (YRP) are essays written by junior/senior high school students sharing their experiences and thoughts of everyday life in Japan.Teens' Photo Project (TPP) also portrays teens in Japan today -how they live and feel- through photography.